"Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Fiction Quotes #Fantasy Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.”
“Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Banville from Oct 15, 2016
“I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.”
“It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.”

Source : James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”
“The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”
“I was the biggest Goldie Hawn fan, my entire life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.”

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